| Common Name | Scientific Name | Min Size/Mass | Bag Limits |
| Anchovies | Family Engraulidae | none | None |
| Baardman (bellman, tasselfish) | Umbrina spp. | 40 cm | 5 |
| Banded galjoen | Dichistius multifasciatus | none | 5 |
| Billfishes (marlin, sailfish) | Family Istiophoridae | none | 5 |
| Blacktail (dassie) | Diplodus sargus capensis | 20 cm | 5 |
| Blue hottentot | Pachymetopon aeneum | none | 5 |
| Bronze bream (bluefish) | Pachymetopon grande | 30 cm | 2 |
| Cape knifejaw | Oplegnathus conwayi | none | 5 |
| Cape stumpnose | Rhabdosargus holubi | 20 cm | 5 |
| Carpenter (silverfish) | Argyrozona argyrozona | 35 cm | 4 |
| Catface rockcod | Epinephelus andersoni | 50 cm | 5 |
| Chub mackerel | Scomber japonicus | none | None |
| Cutlassfish(walla walla) | Trichiurus lepturus | none | None |
| Dageraad | Chrysoblephus cristiceps | 40 cm | 1 |
| Dane | Porcostoma dentata | none | 5 |
| Elf (shad) | Pomatomus saltatrix | 30 cm | 4 |
| Englishman | Chrysoblephus anglicus | 40 cm | 1 |
| Fransmadam (Karel groot oog) | Boopsoidea inornata | none | 10 |
| Galjoen | Dichistius capensis | 35 cm | 2 |
| Garfishes | Family Belonidae | none | None |
| Garrick (leervis) | Lichia amia | 70 cm | 2 |
| Geelbek (Cape salmon) | Atractoscion aequidens | 60 cm | 2 |
| Glassies | Family Ambassidae | none | None |
| Hake (stockfish) | Merluccius spp. | none | 5 |
| Halfbeaks | Family Hemiramphidae | none | None |
| Horse mackerel / maasbanker | Trachurus trachurus capensis | none | None |
| Hottentot | Pachymetopon blochii | 22 cm | 10 |
| John Brown | Gymnocrotaphus curvidens | none | 5 |
| Kingfishes | Caranx spp. and Carangoides spp. | none | 5 |
| King mackerel | Scomberomorus commerson | none | 10 |
| Kob caught from a boat at sea [Cape Agulhas to Umtamvuna River] | Argyrosomus spp. | 50 cm | 5 but may only land or be in possession of one kob > 110cm per day |
| Kob caught from a boat at sea [The Province of Kwazulu-Natal] | Argyrosomus spp. | 40 cm | 5 but may only land or be in possession of one kob > 110cm per day |
| Kob caught in estuaries & from the shore [East of Cape Agulhas only] | Argyrosomus spp. | 60 cm | 1 |
| Kob [West of Cape Agulhas only] | Argyrosomus spp. | 50 cm | 5 |
| Large-spot pompano (wave garrick) | Trachinotus botla | none | 5 |
| Leopard cat shark | Poroderma pantherinum | none | 1 |
| Mullets / harders | Family Mugilidae | none | 50 |
| Natal knifejaw (cuckoo bass) | Oplegnathus robinsoni | none | 5 |
| Natal stumpnose (yellowfin bream) | Rhabdosargus sarba | 25 cm | 5 |
| Pinky (piggy) | Pomadasys olivaceum | 7.5 cm | 10 |
| Poenskop (black steenbras or musselcracker) | Cymatoceps nasutus | 50 cm | 1 |
| Queen mackerel | Scomberomorus plurilineatus | none | 10 |
| Ragged tooth shark | Carcharias taurus | none | 1 |
| Red steenbras (copper steenbras) | Petrus rupestris | 60 cm | 1 |
| Red stumpnose (Miss Lucy) | Chrysoblephus gibbiceps | 30 cm | 1 |
| River bream (perch) | Acanthopagrus berda | 25 cm | 5 |
| River snapper (rock salmon) | Lutjanus argentimaculatus | 40 cm | 5 |
| Roman | Chrysoblephus laticeps | 30 cm | 2 |
| Santer (soldier) | Cheimerius nufar | 30 cm | 5 |
| Sardines (pilchard & red-eye) | Family Clupeidae | none | None |
| Sauries | Family Scomberesocidae | none | None |
| Scads | Decapterus spp. none none | none | None |
| Scotsman | Polysteganus praeorbitalis | 40 cm | 1 |
| Slinger | Chrysoblephus puniceus | 25 cm | 5 |
| Snoek (Cape snoek) | Thyrsites atun | 60 cm | 10 |
| Southern pompano | Trachinotus africanus | none | 5 |
| Spotted grunter (tiger) | Pomadasys commersonnii | 40 cm | 5 |
| Spotted gulley shark | Triakis megalopterus | none | 1 |
| Springer (ten pounder) | Elops machnata | none | 5 |
| Steentjie | Spondyliosoma emarginatum | none | 10 |
| Stonebream | Neoscorpis lithophilus | none | 5 |
| Strepie (karanteen) | Sarpa salpa | 15 cm | 10 |
| Striped cat shark | Poroderma africanum | none | 1 |
| Swordfish (broadbill) | Xiphias gladius | 25 kg | 5 |
| Squid (Chokka) | Loligo vulgarus reynaudii | none | 20 |
| Tunas (tunny) | Thunnus spp. | none | 10 |
| Albacore / longfin tuna | Thunnus alalunga | none | 10 |
| Bigeye tuna | Thunnus obesus | 3.2 kg | 10 |
| Bluefin tuna | Thunnus thynnus | 6.4 kg | 10 |
| Yellowfin tuna | Thunnus albacares | 3.2 kg | 10 |
| West coast steenbras | Lithognathus aureti | 60 cm | 1 |
| White edged (Captain Fine) rockcod | Epinephelus albomarginatus | 40 cm | 5 |
| White musselcracker (brusher, cracker) | Sparodon durbanensis | 60 cm | 2 |
| White steenbras (pignose grunter) | Lithognathus lithognathus | 60 cm | 1 |
| White stumpnose | Rhabdosargus globicebs | 25 cm | 10 |
| Wolfherring | Chirocentrus dorab | none | None |
| Yellowbelly rockcod | Epinephelus marginatus | 60 cm | 1 |
| Yellowtail | Seriola lalandi | none | 10 |
| Zebra (wildeperd) | Diplodus cervinus hottentotus | 30 cm | 5 |